The UAB Department of Pediatrics welcomes eleven new faculty members during the month of August. Please join us in making them feel at home!
Nitin Arora, M.D., Assistant Professor in Neonatology
Ahmed Asfari, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
Jamie Aye, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Teresa Cornelius, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Madhura Hallman, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Critical Care
Angela King, M.D., Instructor in Academic General Pediatrics
Han Phan, M.D., Associate Professor in Pediatric Neurology
Claudette Poole, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Infectious Disease
Emily Smitherman, M.D., Assistant Professor in Pediatric Rheumatology
Christine Stoops, D.O., Assistant Professor in Neonatology
Scott Turner, DNP, Assistant Professor in Pediatric Neurology
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The second Pediatric Residency Reunion was a great success! Over 185 guests attended the reunion with 34 classes being represented. Thank you to all who attended and to everyone who worked hard to make the reunion such a great event!
Click here for photos from the reunion
Lynn Zinkan, Chrystal Rutledge, Amber Cole, Nancy Tofil, Carrie Norwood and Brittany Cameron attend Boiling n' Bragging On August 18. This event, hosted by the Rotary Club, benefits Critical Care Transport at Children's of Alabama.
Photo credit: COA Photographers
Drs. Robert Russell, Santiago Borasino, Daniel Young, Yung Lau and Tony Fargason at the retirement party for Dr. Young on August 16.
Photo credit: COA Photographers
Hannah Gardner, Meghan Hofto and Vinetra King at the Ice Cream Social for faculty on August 23.
The Department of Pediatrics and four Pediatrics faculty have been nominated for multiple 2018 Argus Awards. Created in 1996, the Argus Awards give medical students the chance to honor their mentors, professors, courses and course directors for outstanding service to medical education. Faculty members are nominated by course evaluations, and students vote to select award winners in each category.
Winners will be announced at the Argus Awards Ceremony on Friday, September 7 at 5:30 p.m. at the Alumni House.
Congratulations to all nominees!
Pre-Clinical Awards
Best MS2 Organ Module-Endocrine Systems: Hussein Adbullatif, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology
Best Educator-Cardiovascular: Robb Romp, M.D., Pediatric Cardiology
Best Educator-Pulmonary: William Sasser, M.D., Pediatric Critical Care
Best Educator-Endocrine Systems: Hussein Abdullatif, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology
Clinical Awards
Caduceus Club Award for Best Clinical Department on the Birmingham Campus:Pediatrics
Caduceus Club Award for Excellence in Clinical Education on the Birmingham Campus: Hussein Abdullatif, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology and Jason Hartig, M.D., Academic General Pediatrics
Justin Schwartz, M.D., Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, will join the Innovation's Academy's "Train the Trainer" program. This program is a unique, inter-professional approach to analyze and develop solutions for current challenges in healthcare delivery. The program hopes that participants will return to their respective units armed with new knowledge and a thorough understanding of the process of innovating at UAB Medicine. A key goal of this Academy is the creation of a cohort of innovation coaches dispersed throughout our organization.
Bham Black Pride held their inaugural banquet on Friday, August 17, where Tina Simpson,. M.D., Adolescent Medicine, was named the first recipient of the “Dr. Tina Simpson Invisible Warrior Award.” The award, named in her honor, recognizes Dr. Simpson as the longest serving African American physician caring for children, adolescents and young adults with HIV in the Birmingham area. In the future, this award will recognize those who have made contributions to advance equality and create strong connections in the lives of LGBTQ Alabamians.
Congratulations Dr. Simpson!
The Pediatric Resident Wellness Committee was awarded a GME Works for Well-being Grant for their proposal "Wellness Through Fitness: A Fitness and Nutritional Program for Residents and Fellows.”
The grant will be used to fund weekly fitness classes available to all pediatric residents (and fellows if availability is not an issue) with a certified trainer and nutritionist and will also provide a volunteer study group with body assessments (BMI, body fat percentage, etc) and assess progress over a 10 week span of exercise. The goal of the program is to empower residents to seek activities for physical fitness and wellness during their education!
In February 2018, the UAB GME Office announced GME Works for Well-Being, a call for proposals to increase efforts within UAB GME to support innovated ideas and programs to improve physician well-being and foster a sense of meaning in work.
Team members for the proposal include Malena Gutierrez, M.D., Pediatrics PGY-3, Alicia Webb, M.D., Pediatrics PGY-3, Spandana Induru, M.D., Pediatrics PGY-3 and faculty mentor Michael Stalvey, M.D., Pediatric Endocrinology.
Residents after their weekly Wellness Workout at Resolute Running Training Center. These workouts are part of the residency wellness program.
Photo credit: Spandana Induru
Veronica Givhan, Morissa Ladinsky, Sandy Thurmond, Stefanie McKerley and Lori Moler at the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Alabama (RMCHA) Gala on August 10
Dr. Lauren Nassetta and audience power posing at grand rounds Thursday, August 16
Photo credit: Rachely Cawley